Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia

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Synopsis
The emergence of international human rights law and the end of the White Australia immigration policy were events of great historical moment. Yet, they were not harbingers of a new dawn in migration law.

This book argues that this is because migration law in Australia is best understood as part of a longer jurisprudential tradition in which certain political-economic interests have shaped the relationship between the foreigner and the sovereign. Eve Lester explores how this relationship has been wrought by a political-economic desire to regulate race and labour; a desire that has produced the claim that there exists an absolute sovereign right to exclude or condition the entry and stay of foreigners. Lester calls this putative right a discourse of 'absolute sovereignty'. She argues that 'absolute sovereignty' talk continues to be a driver of migration lawmaking, shaping the foreigner-sovereign relation and making thinkable some of the world's harshest asylum policies.

Copyright:
2018

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781316800263
Related ISBNs:
9781107173279, 9781107173279
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Eve Lester
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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